#trans victor frankenstein

[franken-loser]

DOES THIS NEED A WARNING???? IDK IF I NEED TO PUT IT UNDER A CUT

This is /nsx guys I swear they’re just silly

[caito-does-stuff]

me when i just made a skeleton outline of the trans frankenstein idea i had 🧍‍♂️

[bi-hop]

having read the manga now... I still think they're t4t but in a new unprecedented fashion. I have no idea what's going on with Laios, but take my hand...

[screechingsandwichhologram]

anyway. victor frankenstein spends the book running away from and demonizing his femininity which implies that he is transfem or at least not cis and repressing it. in this essay i will

[pen-inks]

my looking at my choices for trans names:

Wow I love Victor

I love Henry

I love Edmond,

I-

WAIT.

[trickstersaint]

elegy in which you are the creator in the laboratory // october 29 2023

[trannibalcorpse]

frankenstein. transgender. you agree

[bad-art-every-day]

werewolf zine

[see-arcane]

Do you wanna be my boyfriend? Do you wanna be my boyfriend? Do you wanna be my boyfriend? Do you wanna be my boyfriend?

You're not just any type of girl My one true love And you're my world

Something about the nebulous nature of gender across three of my favorite classic characters and the ones who love* them.

*Love here including the good, the bad, and the gothic.

Pictured top to bottom:

Irene Norton, formerly Adler, and Godfrey Norton of Sherlock Holmes' "A Scandal in Bohemia"

Jonathan Harker, Dracula, and Mina Harker, of Dracula

Henry Clerval, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Lavenza, and the Creature, of Frankenstein

[reanimationstation]

i finally drew it

[wilted-wizard]

So we all agree Victor Frankenstein is a transmasc icon right?

[s3janus]

If you could suspend your disbelief enough to buy that a teenage university student was able to discover the secret to creating life, and with this knowledge made an 8 foot tall creature out of human parts in the attic of his dorm room, I think you could reasonably believe that the said university student would also be able to give himself top surgery

[self-proclaimed-mad-scientist]

Looking exactly like Victor Frankenstein would literally solve all of my problems forever.

[franken-loser]

The cure to gender dysphoria is dressing up like Victor Frankenstein actually

[brain-depositary]

I think you've mentioned once that there was something fucky going on with Mary Shelley's gender. Where were you looking to find that? Is it in her journals? letters? I'm looking for a place to start.

I don’t remember if I said there was any solid evidence about Mary Shelley’s gender being fucky per se, but:

1. Frankenstein is a HEAVILY transmasculine book, like to an absurd degree. It’s possible that the transmasculine subtext was created by synthesizing a masculine viewpoint to stand in for “feminine” issues however (difficult pregnancies, presumed fragility in health/mind, incestuous abuse) because the issues were not safe for her to write about. For example, the incest issues in Frankenstein are buried while in her next book chronologically, Mathilda, was not, and it was not allowed to be published until the 1900s because her father blocked publication. The fact that Frankenstein managed to get, and still managed to get, so much under the radar makes me wonder if her viewpoint came from any self-knowledge.

2. Mary Shelley was friends with trans man and writer David Lyndsay/Walter Sholto Douglas, who she met after the first edition of Frankenstein (1818) was released, and he was sick with some kind of physical and mental illnesses and died before the more widely released 3rd edition (1831), which has been criticized for making Victor Frankenstein too sympathetic. And by “friends” I mean she engaged in a harebrained scheme to forge him and his wife papers so he would legally be a man when they moved to Paris, so, you know, grade A allyship from Mary Shelley. Anyway, the character of Victor is widely attributed to Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and him becoming more sympathetic has been attributed to changing social mores and the stage play but I’d be VERY curious if any of Lyndsay/Douglas made it in there, though this would take a shitton of research and my life has been too much of a garbage fire to get into this right now.

3. There could be stuff I’m forgetting but again, my life, garbage fire, etc. if anyone else has a suggestion here, I’d be very grateful.

So, anyone?

[papsiguesss]

Hammer Victor Frankenstein giving you gender reassignment surgery.

That’s it that’s the post I’ve been thinking about this a totally normal number of times